Cpanel – Disable eximstats and truncate database from commandline

Published on Author gryzli

Few words about Eximstats Eximstats is a cPanel service, which is used to gather all kind of statistics for your incoming/outgoing email correspondence. The initial idea of such service is very nice, but after some time there arise some problems: The eximstats database tends to grow enormously ( especially if you have high-volume mail traffic)… Continue reading Cpanel – Disable eximstats and truncate database from commandline

Cpanel – Making persistent changes to Dovecot

Published on Author gryzli

Need to make persistent changes to Dovecot config under cpanel ? If by some reason you need to make persistent changes to Dovecot and you are running cPanel here is how to do it. Keep in mind that when using cPanel, if you try to make a direct change to the Dovecot configuration file, which… Continue reading Cpanel – Making persistent changes to Dovecot

cPanel – Install PostgresSQL 9.4

Published on Author gryzli

This howto shows how to install additional PostgresSQL (latest stable) on a cPanel server (11.38 in my case).  !!  I assume your server doesn’t have any PostgreSQL installed !! 1. Add the postgres repository to cPanel yum install http://yum.postgresql.org/9.4/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-redhat94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm   2. Install postgres 9.4 packages yum install postgresql94-server.x86_64 postgresql94-devel.x86_64 postgresql94.x86_64 3. Add postgresql to exclude… Continue reading cPanel – Install PostgresSQL 9.4

cPanel – Pure-FTPD – Timeout connecting to ftp using explicit FTP over TLS

Published on Author gryzli

The problem While trying to connect, to FTP by using Passive Mode + explicit FTP over TLS, I was getting the following timeouts: Error: Connection timed out Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing Status: Connecting to XXX.yyy.XXX.yyy:21… Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message… Response: 220———- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ———- Response: 220-You are… Continue reading cPanel – Pure-FTPD – Timeout connecting to ftp using explicit FTP over TLS